Florence Plouchart-Cohn manages the H2020 research project Whole-COMM - Exploring the Integration of Post-2014 Migrants in Small and Medium-Sized Towns and Rural Areas from a Whole of Community Perspective, coordinated by the Collegio, and the activities of the Long-Term Investors@UniTO think tank. 
After graduating both in Economics and in Italian studies from Paris Ecole Normale Supérieure, she has worked in different fields in the past twenty years: teaching, research, international cultural and university cooperation, performing arts management. She participated, also as project manager, to several projects funded by the European Commission (European Social Fund, Creative Europe).